To see

Are you planning to go on holiday to Ajaccio? What to see, what to do in the imperial city? Museums, citadel, emblematic statues, we show you the inevitable in Ajaccio!

- XVI^th century Renaissance Cathedral.

- XVI^th Church of Saint Erasmus, sanctuary dedicated to the Patron Saint of sailors, decorated with models of boats.

- Place Foch or Palm Trees Square and the Four Lions Fountain.

- Close by, Statue of the Madonuccia, patron saint of the city since 1656.

- Fesch Museum, a remarkable collection of the Italian schools of the XIVth and XIXth centuries.

- “A Bandera” Museum of Corsican Mediterranean history.

- Capitellu museum.

- Imperial chapel: renaissance style, burial place of the Imperial family.

- Maison Bonaparte, birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte on 15 August 1769.

- Sanguinary islands to the North of the gulf.

- Home of Tino Rossi, the Corsican Nightingale.

- Coti-Chiavari prison.

- Point of Parata under its Genoese watch tower giving superb view over the Iles Sanguinaires.

- A Cupulatta Park, centre for protection and breeding of turtles (120 species).

- Waterfall at Bocognano (10 minutes away) known as the Waterfall of the Bridal Veil.

- Monumental Menhir statue at Tavera (2000 BC, Bronze Age).

- Statue and birthplace of Sampieru Corsu at Bastelica.

- Genoese Bridge at Zipitoli.

- Tolla lake (fishing).

- Prunelli Gorges.

- Ese plateau (ski and mountain walking).

- Liscia golf course.

- Ruins of the Castle of the Counts of Cinarca.

- Small seaside resort of Tiuccia.